How to reduce your page loads from 72 seconds to 1.52 seconds
If you’re expecting some kind of long winded tutorial about optmising, caching and super-charging your site, sorry to disappoint. The advice is: Don’t use flickr Ok, if you’re not a flickr user you’ve probably stopped reading already, but if not you might be rewarded by one or two nuggets of useful information. The story starts with Hiro’s personal blog being at the top of hatena’s bookmarks page (think Japanese delicious). Unfortunately, it was hosted in-house about 2 metres away from where I am sitting. I think I can still smell the smoke :p It was swamped, no-one could get through to it but we kept it up in some vain attempt to let whoever access the Evangelion related story. The server wasn’t tuned or optimised...
5 examples of Augmented Reality being used by business
AR (Augmented Reality), thanks to the iPhone Application called “Sekai Kamera” which allows you to see virtual tags users attach to real world views through iPhone camera, is attracting a lot of attention in Japan. It is starting to be used for sales promotions and marketing purposes all over the world. If we imagine the “Scouter” in DragonBall or “AR glasses” in Dennō Coil, it seems like a technology set in the future, but how is it like in the real world? Here I examine 5 cases of AR as used in business in the present moment. 1. Zugara – a service which allows you to have your virtual fitting room This is one of the most famous AR examples and has caught the imagination of many bloggers. You print out what they call...